vulnerability

VMware Photon OS: CVE-2017-9041

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
May 18, 2017
Added
Jan 20, 2025
Modified
Sep 2, 2025

Description

GNU Binutils 2.28 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer over-read and application crash) via a crafted ELF file, related to MIPS GOT mishandling in the process_mips_specific function in readelf.c.

Solution

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
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